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FM Frequency of the Week 2018-19-20: 90.1

In Atlanta, it's WABE, the Atlanta Board of Education's station. They show up quite respectably in the ratings. They also have a TV station on channel 30.
 
Far northwest Chicago suburbs.....

90.1 here is WMBI-FM. Unlike the other "full signal" FM stations, WMBI's stick is about 20 miles west of the downtown skyscrapers. The result here is that WMBI has the strongest "Chicago" signal. WMBI has a longstanding reputation for quality religious programming and historically has always shown up in the Chicago ratings books.
 
KUER-FM, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Their transmitter sits right where the old KUTV analog (channel 2) transmitter was, on Farnsworth Peak. That transmitter was donated to the U of U for a bi-static radar project that looked for gamma rays, by beaming a very narrow beam of RF on TV channel 2 toward the southwest from Delta, Utah.
The first night of operation, friends in Australia were able to detect that carrier...via a bounce off the moon.
 
Lexington, KY:
Nothing but splatter from local 50kW K-LOVE 89.9 WKVO, although I have received WORI, Harrison, OH before.

Zachary, LA (Baton Rouge area):
Clear frequency but have received 100kW Public/NPR WMPR, Jackson, MS.
 
Believe it or not, for many years WMBI-FM used to be a regular in Southeast Michigan. I had a portable Sony AM-FM radio with a Cassette Recorder and it faded in and faded out pretty much all the time. Eventually, in 1989, WUCX Bay City came on 90.1 and it was much more difficult to receive.
 
Anyone here ever experiment with using filters and nulling, using a separate "sense" antenna, to hear stations under the adjacent-channel splatter?
If it ever stops snowing here, maybe I'll do some experimenting and start a thread ? .
 
Yes, I did some experiments with an interferometer once. I had two outdoor Antennacraft/Archer FM-10 antennas connected to a 12 position Rembrandt antenna switch phasing one antenna. That switch introduces different phase and field ratio changes as you change positions, not that I knew exactly what they were doing. But as you changed the positions, some cochannel stations would pop in and out as you switched. I remember two cochannels vividly, crystal clear in different positions, WWCK-FM 105.5 Flint and the now WQQO 105.5 Sylvania/Toledo. So far, I have not been able to use anything that effectively nulls out the IBOC subchannels. There is a detector modification shown online which gets rid of certain IBOC artifacts, but it's far from cancelling them as I recall. There are antennas which you can build or modify which might help on the K6STI site. I don't know how you would get parts and supplies except maybe online now though. The FM-6 modification on the K6STI site is the simplest. One FM-10 fell down in a storm and remains bent and damaged in the basement.
 

I don't get anything. There supposedly are 2 stations. One is KZSU, Stanford University's 500 w student-run station. The other is KYCC (41 Kw) in Stockton, a Christian music station.
 
Street Novelist said:

I don't get anything. There supposedly are 2 stations. One is KZSU, Stanford University's 500 w student-run station. The other is KYCC (41 Kw) in Stockton, a Christian music station.
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Welcome to the board, Street Novelist. You're always among friends here, so don't be a stranger. Reports from the Bay Area always wanted. :)
 
Central Kansas:
Clear signal from KHCC/Hutchinson (flagship of the NPR/classical/jazz hybrid Radio Kansas).

Mason City, Iowa:
Good signal from WOI-FM/Ames (Iowa Public Radio’s FM flagship).
 
NE WI:
WORQ Green Bay, WI (Christian Contemporary)

NW AR:
KBNV Fayetteville, AR (Religious)

NW AR DX:
KCSC Edmond, OK (Classical) Now KUCO
WGCU Fort Myers, FL (NPR)
KHCC Hutchinson, KS (NPR)
 
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